Midweek Racing.

Thursday evenings through the summer seems popular for some at our club. Mainly race training, coaching or free sailing. The club opens on tues evening during the summer months for RYA 1&2, this attracts fair numbers of free sailors taking advantage of the safety boat cover. I'm not sure that Wednesday daytime would work for most clubs unless they had significant numbers of retired members.

What sort of turn out do you get at Carsington and what sort of  jobs/lifestyle do the participants have?

Edited by transient - 24 Oct 16 at 3:16pm

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transient Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 21 Aug 12 Online Status: Offline Posts: 715	Post Options Post Reply Quote transient Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Midweek Racing. Posted: 24 Oct 16 at 3:13pm
	Thursday evenings through the summer seems popular for some at our club. Mainly race training, coaching or free sailing. The club opens on tues evening during the summer months for RYA 1&2, this attracts fair numbers of free sailors taking advantage of the safety boat cover. I'm not sure that Wednesday daytime would work for most clubs unless they had significant numbers of retired members. What sort of turn out do you get at Carsington and what sort of jobs/lifestyle do the participants have? Edited by transient - 24 Oct 16 at 3:16pm

Wrighty Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Posting king Joined: 21 Mar 07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 192	Post Options Post Reply Quote Wrighty Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 24 Oct 16 at 2:19pm
	Thats a great point about Friday. Carsington do a sail and sizzle night untill 8pm in the Summer on Friday so it only need a push to do a normal afternoon race now, they do a novice race anyway so we will see what happens,it could kill the Sunday race series is the only problem but might attact more members so win and loose? Chris Edited by Wrighty - 24 Oct 16 at 2:24pm
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Guests Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Quote Reply Posted: 24 Oct 16 at 2:05pm
	Not sure that a Weds daytime would be more popular than Sunday, but do agree that midweek evening racing gets bigger turnouts (about 80 vs 40 at my club) and so wonder whether we should be switching the 'default' main races to midweek evenings. We hold all of our trophy races on a Sunday; to maximise turnout perhaps the prestigious ones should be on a Wednesday evening? No one seems to work Friday afternoons anymore. I wonder whether a 2pm race on Fridays might be the way to go? Inteferswith the school run, but as most sailing is by middle aged men, probably not too much of a problem!

Wrighty Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Posting king Joined: 21 Mar 07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 192	Post Options Post Reply Quote Wrighty Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 24 Oct 16 at 12:17pm
	Its took a long time coming but we now have a very good midweek racing at Carsington, We have had a Wednesday afternoon race this year then when the evening racing stopped they put on two races in the afternoon, the turnout was better than anyone could of hoped for. We are trying to see if can get a morning then a pm race before it gets too cold now. Next year as the D Zero has took off at Carsington with four new boats on order we should see an increase in the class racing aspect of the Wednesday series to add to the five solo that sometimes race on wednesday. Could it be that the Wednesday racing could become the best day to go sailing, morning race then lunch, afternoon race than evening race with a very good turnout as usual ? Edited by Wrighty - 24 Oct 16 at 12:19pm
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